[AISWorld] Tenure-Track Faculty Position at Singapore Management University

[Mei LIN]

Dear colleagues,

Please find our position announcement below:

INFORMATION SYSTEMS TENURE TRACK FACULTY POSITIONS AVAILABLE
Information Systems & Management (IS&M)
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We are interested in hiring at the Associate or Assistant Professor level. Candidates for the Associate Professor position may be experienced faculty, or applied technology researchers in a research-focused organization or agency. New Ph.D. graduates will be considered for the Assistant Professor position.
Requirements. Applicants should demonstrate: (1) established and innovative research targeted at the top journals, that creates interdisciplinary interest; (2) a commitment and competency to teach topics in-volving IS, management and data analytics at the undergraduate and master's levels; and (3) the com-pletion of a Ph.D. degree.

Candidates
We seek candidates who have interests and experience working in some of these areas:
*             Economics of IS; consumer behaviour, marketing, and IT; empirical research approaches
*             IT in supply chain management, logistics and operations; management science approaches
*             Industrial organization for IT in firms, industries and economies; economic analysis methods
*             Experimental social science in field settings; including empirics in a mobile telephony test bed
*             Financial IS and technology; IT strategies for financial institutions and financial markets
*             Business and social policy analytics for IT; urban sustainability; healthcare and transport services
*             Computational social science; data mining and big data analytics; advanced statistical methods
Applicants may have single or interdisciplinary backgrounds.

Interdisciplinarity
We welcome applications from people trained in disciplines other than Information Systems who are committed to applying their training and research efforts to the topics listed above or to similar topics. For example, in addition to encouraging applicants from the IS academic communities, we also strongly encourage applications from people with disciplinary and research backgrounds in: Applied Economics and Econometrics; Big Data and Behavioural Economics methods applied to Marketing or Consumer Behaviour; Applied Statistics; and Computer Science. People with backgrounds in: Financial Services IS and Technology; Social Science or Management Applications; Informatics and Healthcare Management or Policy; and Technology Policy and Management in the Public Sector are welcome too.

Singapore Management University
SMU was founded in 2000. The government of Singapore funds it, though it was chartered originally as an autonomous, private university. It has close working relationships with: the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania; Carnegie Mellon University; Peking Universi-ty; Southwestern University of Finance and Economics; the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore; and Université Paris Dauphine. As a university centred on business and management spanning both the private and public sectors, SMU is fortunate to occupy a recently built campus in the heart of Singapore's civic, cultural and business district. SMU values research that bridges theory and practice, takes ad-vantage of our regional location and access, and leverages both to create new knowledge and insights with global relevance.

SMU's research in Economics, Finance, and Accounting, from 2010 onwards, has obtained global prom-inence. SMU's published output in these areas has resulted in high and rapidly climbing recognition in the discipline-specific global rankings. SMU's published work in the IS-related areas of data analytics, information security, intelligent systems, IS economics and management, and software systems has also achieved global visibility and prominence.

School of Information Systems
SIS has substantial research and educational efforts on both the man-agement side, as well as on the computing and technology side of IS. Because of our capabilities in IS and technology, SIS is the only academic unit within SMU that is classified under Singapore's Science and Technology Cluster of academic units, making us eligible for government funding targeted for Sci-ence and Technology-based university programmes and research institutes. This increases our access to external research support. At present, SIS has 49 faculty and 59 Ph.D. students, with 7 more joining in early 2015. There are 10+ centres and labs within the School that conduct interdisciplinary work spanning the management, technology and social aspects of IS. Collaborative work is highly encouraged.

In May 2013, the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) and the Infocomm Development Authority (IDA) of Singapore designated SMU SIS as the national lead provider for a new national scheme for Financial Services IT manpower development. To meet this need, SIS has created the Financial IT Academy @SMU (FITA) to design and deliver high quality continuing education and training programmes to support technology and operations professionals in the financial services industry. FITA offers our faculty unprecedented connections with banking and other finance professionals working at the intersection of technology, operations, processes and services (TOPS) innovations for wealth management, retail and corporate services, and financial markets in the leading financial hub of Asia.

Research at SIS and SMU
SMU has identified five university-wide Areas of Excellence for development and expansion: Analytics for Business, Consumer and Social Insights; Financial Markets and Institutions; Innovation and Entrepreneurship; Urban Management and Sustainability; and the Economics of Aging. SIS leads the university-wide responsibility for the Analytics Area of Excellence, as well as the Urban Management and Sustainability Area of Excellence. The S$52 million Living Analytics Research Centre (LARC), a joint effort with Carnegie Mellon University, is an example of how SMU has built new capabilities in Analytics for Business, Consumer and Social insights. LARC focuses on closed-loop experimental research for near real-time applications in network-centric settings with societal-scale data.

The school also hosts the S$10 million LiveLabs Urban Lifestyle Innovation Platform, a city-scale re-search test-bed for researchers and organizations to run large-scale consumer behavioral trials and ex-periment with novel mobile services on real people in real environments. In addition, SMU has recently announced its participation in a S$54 million Urban Computing Centre of Excellence, collaborating with Fujitsu Limited and Singapore's Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR). Our Fujitsu Corporate Lab, which is just being set up, will focus on dynamic mobility and traffic congestion manage-ment, and maritime and port optimisation. Another recent tie with Ping An Insurance of China, via our Pinnacle Lab, promotes technology and knowledge transfer for data analytics to support insurance and financial services.
SIS is home to the SMU-TCS iCity Lab, a multi-year collaboration with Tata Consulting Services. Exam-ples of projects in the iCity Lab are: (1) exploring how mobile technologies and analytics can be used to support the health, as well as other living and well-being needs of aging patients with chronic diseases; and (2) developing an urban management platform to implement city policies through operations and processes, and to deliver citizen interaction services across healthcare, education, transportation, and other verticals. iCity Lab is also contributing building blocks for an emerging vision of cloud-based IT so-lutions for intelligent cities in Asia and worldwide.

Through a partnership with DHL and SMU, the Green Transformation Lab (GTL) was established in 2013 at SIS to address problems at the intersection of sustainability, supply chain management, and large-scale business modeling and process transformation. By integrating data analytics with new solutions for intelligent supply chain management, GTL is helping DHL and companies in its customer network trans-form their supply chains, to become greener, more resource efficient, and more sustainable. SIS faculty, staff and students, as well as faculty from SMU's Lee Kong Chian School of Business Operations Man-agement group, are actively working with the GTL.

Our 'icicles' - institutes, centres and labs - offer ways you can access real-world test-beds, real-world data, and external domain experts and organisations. They also provide opportunities for conducting in-tegrative and interdisciplinary work, and for testing new theories and new methods in practice.

The IS&M Faculty Cluster
IS&M currently has seven tenure track research faculty with doctoral de-grees from UT Austin, Carnegie Mellon, Rochester and Harvard. The cluster also has five additional Ed-ucation and Practice faculty, who focus on education delivery, education projects with industry, and out-reach missions. The seven main areas of coverage of IS&M are:
*             Economics of IS and technology
*             Social media marketing and digital strategies
*             Platforms, networks and markets
*             Information products and IT services
*             IT and supply chain management
*             Financial IS and technology
*             Strategy, innovation and design

Arrayed around the IS&M cluster are four other clusters of faculty in SIS:
*             Data Management & Analytics
*             Information Security & Trust
*             Intelligent Systems & Decision Analytics
*             Software Systems

These competencies enable us to do interdisciplinary research on: software analytics and mobile systems software; autonomous agents and multi-agent systems; data security and information privacy; data mining for text, social media; sentiment analysis, and spatial data analytics; and economic and manage-ment science modelling, econometrics and statistical analysis, experimental and field-based research.

Learn More
To explore the connections possible for you as a faculty member, visit our websites: Singa-pore Management University (smu.edu.sg), the School of Information Systems (sis.smu.edu.sg), and our research centres. These include LARC (larc.smu.edu.sg), LiveLabs (livelabs.smu.edu.sg), the SMU-DHL Green Transformation Lab (gtl.smu.edu.sg), iCity Lab (icity.smu.edu.sg), the Pinnacle Lab (centres.smu.edu.sg/pinnacle), and the Urban Management and Analytics Labs (sis.smu.edu.sg/urban-management-analytics-labs).

Information on our Post-Graduate Research programmes is also available for:
*             Ph.D. Programme (sis.smu.edu.sg/programmes/PhD/overview)
*             Masters of Applied IS Programme (sis.smu.edu.sg/programmes/MAIS/overview).

Information on our Post-Graduate Professional Programmes can be found at:
*             Masters of IT in Business (Analytics) (sis.smu.edu.sg/programmes/postgraduate/mitb)
*             Masters of IT in Business (Financial Serv.) (www.smu.edu.sg/programmes/postgraduate/mitb-fs)
*             Financial IT Academy @SMU (sis.smu.edu.sg/master-it-business/industry/fit-academy)
*             B.Sc. (IS Management) (sis.smu.edu.sg/programmes/bsc-ism/curriculum/overview).

Application
Interested candidates should apply by sending materials to:  'IS&M Faculty Search' via siscv at smu.edu.sg

The required submission materials include:
(1)          a cover letter explaining the position you are interested in and your qualifications;
(2)          your current CV, research statement and research samples; and
(3)          a teaching statement with past teaching performance evaluation information.

Indicate the title of your job market paper, so we have an idea in advance of the audience for your work. Letters of reference are not required initially. Instead, we will request for candidates who make our short list. Direct questions to siscv at smu.edu.sg, and indicate 'IS&M Faculty Search' in the subject line.

Screening interviews
For a December 2014 interview at the International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS) or its satellite workshops in Auckland, or via Skype, please submit no later than Monday, December 8. For a January 2015 Skype interview, please submit no later than Monday, December 29. University visits will start in January 2015. Our positions will stay open until they are filled.



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Mei LIN, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Information Systems & Management
School of Information Systems
Singapore Management University
80 Stamford Road, Singapore 178902
Tel: +65 6808 5284
Webpage: http://www.mysmu.edu/faculty/mlin/

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